Because many people have asked, I have to regretfully say that I do not
know Judit Polgar personally
or have any contact info for her. Therefore, I am unable to forward
any mail (electronic or snail) to her. I apologize to all those who
have E-mailed me asking how they can contact her. The only lead I can offer
is to
E-mail her sister Zsuzsa. She or someone on her staff may be able to forward
mail to Judit (Please let me know if any of you have any success.)

ABOUT JUDIT POLGAR:

Anyone who knows me knows that
I get a big kick out of seeing women succeed in a man’s world! One of the
last "men's clubs" (besides Congress and the Oval Office) has been the chess
world, but now even here women are proving that they can excel. Leading the
new generation women players are the Polgar sisters of Hungary -- Judit,
Zsuzsa, and Sofia, the “Three Adepts at Chess” I like to call them (in an
allusion to the Three Adepts at Sorcery from the
Oz Books).

Of the three great prodigies, my favorite
is Judit. She is not only a very strong player with a growing record of
victories against the most formidable of male grandmasters, but she exhibits
a demureness and modesty that is a refreshing relief from the self-serving
arrogance of chessmasters like Bobby Fischer. On her prospects for perhaps
becoming the first-ever female World Champion someday she once said, “Of
course, it must be a fantastic feeling [to be World Champion], but I'm also
happy to play a nice game.” Although many nay-sayers (mostly men) dismiss
out of hand the possibility of Judit eventually becoming World Champion,
I like to point out that Judit is only 23 years old, and yet has already
left her mark on the chess world. She first became a grandmaster at
the tender age of 15 years and 4 months, beating Bobby's Fischer record.
Since then she has rapidly ascended the totem pole of chess fame, jumping
from 30th to 10th in the World Chess Federation list of the top ranked players
in only a few years; and she has already won against some of the greatest
names in chess, including Anatoly Karpov, Boris Spassky, Viswanathan Anand,
and Nigel Short. So I do not in the least doubt tha she will one day win
the World Championship! (Once upon a time we all "knew" that the idea
of an African-American named Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's World Record
in home runs was absurd.)

I'm also very much a fan of Judit's
two sisters. Zsuzsa is currently Woman's World Chess Champion, runs a
chess school in New York, "The Polgar Chess Authority", and with her husband
co-wrote a book about herself and her sisters called Queen of the King's
Game. Unfortunately I don't presently know very much about Sofia, except
that she is a very strong tournament player as well.

This Judit Polgar page is still under
construction, but I hope to have much more info. about her soon, including
an archive of her greatest games. Any info. you care to offer, please
E-mail me.

Click here to
look at my favorite pictures of Judit, or here for
some of her greatest games.